Tofino Trip 2012 - Victoria

In the beginning of July, Jonathan, Edison, Marilyn and I left for a two week trip to the Island. We spent most of the time in Tofino and Ucuelet... Jonathan had surfing on the brain... but we also made a couple of other stops along the way.

Jonathan and I wanted to spend a day in Victoria at some point on our trip. We both went to the University of Victoria, spent a few years living there and have some very fond memories. Since moving back to the mainland (7 years ago!!) we've only been back to Victoria a couple of times.... we can thank ridiculously overpriced BC Ferries for that.

We decided to head to Victoria first, spend the day doing the sightseeing/tourist thing, spend the night there and then head to Tofino first thing the next morning.

Edison had fun on the ferry, as usual...

Our day in Victoria was fun! The first thing on our agenda was finding a hotel so that we could drop of the two bikes and three surfboards we were carting around on our car. We came across the Admiral Inn and really liked it. It was nice, not super expensive, and we had our own entrance which was handy for unloading all our stuff. We would totally stay there again. And the best part was, it was only a two minute walk to the inner harbour!

Edison loved his new digs... the Peapod toddler bed 

Bringing all his toys into his tent 

Marilyn, never missing a chance to practice her violin

After unloading we headed over the the harbour to walk around. I forgot how busy and touristy it gets there, but it was still fun to see all the awesome buildings and all the vendors selling their wares. We wandered down on the causeway, past the Empress Hotel, took a stop at the Parliament buildings, and then headed back to our hotel.

There was a street performer who was totally awesome at what she did and so entertaining to watch. Most of the time she stood like a statue... but if you put money in her jar, she'd move and show you that she wanted you to have your picture taken with her. Marilyn wanted to give her money because she was so good... but didn't really want to go in for the picture. As you can see... Marilyn didn't really have much of a choice...

After our walk we did a few other things to end the day. We ate at a couple of our favourite places from when we lived there, Jonathan went skateboarding at the skatepark he used to work at, and Marilyn and I went on a drive out to good old Costco for a few things.

It was a fun day. I'm so glad we were able to spend a bit of time there... I definitely miss that city!